'Authorized' in the Bible

At that time Tattenai, the governor of the province on the west side of the [Euphrates] River, and Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues came to them and said, “Who issued you a decree and authorized you to rebuild this temple and to restore this wall (shrine)?”

Then we asked those elders, ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?’